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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book by Elaine Treharne 中世纪手稿的感知:伊莱恩·特雷恩的非凡之书

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0008

Sonja Drimmer

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Old Media and the Medieval Concept: Media Ecologies before Early Modernity ed. by Thora Brylow and Stephen M. Yeager (review) 《旧媒体与中世纪概念:早期现代性之前的媒体生态》，索拉·布赖洛、斯蒂芬·m·耶格尔主编

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0007

L. Morreale

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When Mice Eat Cats: An Allegory of Empire as Border Art in the Diary of an Eighteenth-Century Mughal Bureaucrat 《当老鼠吃猫:18世纪莫卧儿王朝官员日记中作为边境艺术的帝国寓言》

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0001

Sudev J Sheth, M. Dawood

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Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City ed. by Trinita Kennedy (review) 中世纪的博洛尼亚:大学城的艺术，特里尼塔·肯尼迪主编(书评)

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0012

Holly Flora

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George D. Smith (1870–1920), Bernard Alfred Quaritch (1871–1913), and the Trade in Medieval European Manuscripts in the United States ca. 1890–1920

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0002

L. Cleaver

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Reading Japanese Documents from the Marega Collection: An Introductory Manual with Selected Texts by Naohiro Ōta (review) 从Marega Collection中阅读日本文献:Naohiro精选文本入门手册Ōta(评论)

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0009

Daniel J. Lauro

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Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps by Jennifer Borland (review) 《家庭健康可视化:军团改革中的中世纪妇女、艺术和知识》，作者:Jennifer Borland(书评)

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0011

Winston Black

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Collaborative Methods: Evidence of Commercial Illumination Workshop Practices in the Beinecke MS 1216 协作方法:在Beinecke MS 1216商业照明车间实践的证据

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0006

Kimberly Lifton

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Beinecke MS 1085: A Fifteenth-Century Medical Fragment Beinecke MS 1085: 15世纪的医学碎片

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2023.0005

Maia R. Béar

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Tammaro De Marinis, Vittorio Forti, and the Acquisition of Islamic Manuscripts for J. P. Morgan in Constantinople in 1913 Tammaro De Marinis, Vittorio Forti，以及1913年在君士坦丁堡为j.p. Morgan获得的伊斯兰手稿

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Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/mns.2022.0016

Federico Botana

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